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among themselves.
    He looked at Shim who nodded, understanding what they needed to do.
    They stood up, moving toward the Seelies. It was time to talk to their brothers-in-law.
    Even before they’d made it to the Finns, Cian Finn had turned, walking their way with an angry look on his face.
    “Why the hell haven’t you said something before now?” Cian got right in Lach’s space.
    Lach had no intentions of letting the Green Man intimidate him. “Should I have walked around informing everyone that Bronwyn Finn is alive? Do you think that wouldn’t have gotten back to Torin?”
    Beck seemed calmer, but there was a cold look in his eyes. “You could have told us. We both have relatives on the Vampire plane. We’ve probably been in the same city at the same time, and yet you kept this a secret.”
    “We told our father. Not her name because we understood the danger to her, but we explained the situation, and he refused to believe. If you hadn’t seen what Lach could do tonight, you wouldn’t have believed it, either.”
    “You bloody well could have tried,” Cian spat.
    “Tell me something, Prince Lachlan,” Beck began with lazy menace. “Does my sister know she’s a princess of the Unseelie Fae?”
    There it was, that churning in the pit of Lach’s belly. “The connection is difficult to explain.”
    “Yes, you seem to have that trouble a lot,” Cian said.
    Shim was getting angry, his hands twitching. When Shim got angry, fireballs tended to descend from out of nowhere.
    “Shim, calm down. Torching our brothers-in-law won’t make the situation better.”
    His ever-more-reasonable brother smiled grimly. “It will make me feel better.”
    “I’d love to see you try it,” Cian ground back.
    Beck managed a little laugh. “He’s my calm half.”
    A kinship opened between them. “Shim is my happy half. I’m a righteous bastard.”
    “Well, I’m all sunshine and daisies,” Beck replied, his expression relaxing. “Cian, stop overreacting. I know how you feel, but you know damn well that I wouldn’t have taken a meeting with the Unseelie until very recently.”
    “It wasn’t like I didn’t try,” his father said. “I would have tried harder if I’d listened to my sons.”
    A little fracture started in Lach’s stubbornness. He knew it was coming from Shim, but he welcomed it. Being angry with his father hadn’t gotten them anywhere.
    “I still would have resisted,” Beck Finn admitted. “Until we found our Meggie, we were the ones who were fading. I couldn’t consider any sort of an alliance. It wouldn’t have worked, and then I was just concerned with bonding with Meggie and keeping her safe.”
    “You can’t hide anymore.” The quiet statement came from Dante Dellacourt, who looked so much more serious than the entertainments on the Vampire plane had made him out to be. Lach never would have expected the vampire to give up everything to follow his cousins on what was likely a lost cause.
    It can’t be lost. It can’t. Not yet. After he and Shim had gotten their bondmate out of Tir na nÓg, then it could all go to hell, but not before then. After Bronwyn was safe in the Dark Palace, the Seelie plane could rot for all he cared. They would close the Unseelie plane and live in peace. Let the other planes duke it out. This wasn’t Lach’s fight.
    “I know I can’t hide, Dante,” Beck allowed. “The time has come.” He turned back to Lach and Shim. “We were talking to your father about the plan Dante’s come up with. In a week and a half, a formal group of ambassadors from the Vampire plane will be welcomed into Tir na nÓg. That means Torin has to open the plane.”
    Torin’s hags had managed to shut off Tir na nÓg for over thirteen years. Some managed to sneak in. There were always cracks a smart Fae could slip through, but not an army, and that’s what the Seelie twins would need. But if the magical walls were down, a crack in the veil that held the plane closed could be